The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة

al-Mā’idah (The Table)

ٱلْمَائِدَة

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la-tajidanna ʾashadda n-nāsi ʿadāwatan li-lladhīna ʾāmanū l-yahūda wa-lladhīna ʾashrakū wa-la-tajidanna ʾaqrabahum mawaddatan li-lladhīna ʾāmanū lladhīna qālū ʾinnā naṣārā dhālika bi-ʾanna minhum qissīsīna wa-ruhbānan wa-ʾannahum yastakbirūna

Surely You will find the most hostile of all people towards the faithful to be the Jews and the polytheists, and surely you will find the nearest of them in affection to the faithful to be those who say ‘We are Christians.’ That is because there are priests and monks among them, and because they are not arrogant.

Ali Quli Qarai